A U.S.-born Israeli who set himself on fire to protest the Gaza Strip withdrawal died. Baruch Ben-Menachem, a recent American immigrant, doused himself in lighter fluid and then lit himself at his Hebrew-language learning center in Jerusalem last week.
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